Current edition

About Wales
Current edition March 2010 extract (pdf: 2.81mb)

full edition March 2007 (pdf: 5.8mb)

full edition July 2007 (pdf: 3.6mb)

full edition Nov 2007 (pdf: 5.3mb)

full edition April 2008 (pdf: 2.52mb)

full edition December 2008 (pdf: 9.83mb)

full edition June 2009 (pdf: 2.9mb)

full edition December 2009 (pdf: 9.5mb)

Reports and research
Online versions of recent reports are available here.

The future development of Cardiff Conference organised by the Cardiff and Penarth Civic Societies 18 October 2008, 10-4 Cardiff County Hall featuring Sue Essex, John Punter and Stuart Williams conference record

Treftadaeth 2008 reports link This page now includes the Towards a strategic statement document produced by the Historic Environment Group and revised in the light of stakeholder consultation.

Earth House: Nurturing a creative response to sustainability issues - a live project (Ian Standen and Rachel Grainger) report on a collaborative project involving schoolchildren and students from the University of Glamorgan. A fully referenced version of the paper published in the July 2007 About Wales. link(33kb) | magazine version link (894kb)

CONFERENCE REPORT Conservation areas in crisis? Forty years on... Joint event with IHBC (June 2007) online and print reports link

CONFERENCE REPORT Buildings at risk Joint event with IHBC (July 2006). Presentations are online; text versions of selected papers link

CONFERENCE REPORT "The past we inherit, the future we build; the historic environment in Wales". The event was jointly organised by the Trust and the Institute of Historic Building Conservation and took place on 4 November 2005. Conference papers | back numbers of the winter 2005 edition of About Wales , which prints these papers, can be obtained from the Trust.

Conserving historic buildings: the use of traditional materials (special edition of About Wales, autumn 2004 based on a conference organised on behalf of Cadw). Available online in screen-quality Adobe Acrobat format; a print quality version on CD can be ordered from the Trust as an alternative to the hard copy. Paper copies also available on request (£5 incl p&p) link.

 
The Assembly, Planning and Design: seminar report (html)

Conservation Areas in Wales: Management and Urban design: research report by Matthew Griffiths (CTW) and Sam Romaya (Cardiff University): web page version (html pages) | Acrobat version prelims (pdf: 194kb) | ch1 (pdf: 112kb) | ch2/3 ( pdf: 216kb) | ch4 (pdf: 116kb) | ch5 (pdf: 105kb) | app1 (pdf: 59kb) | app2 (pdf: 74kb) | color insert (pdf: 187kb)

Education and the built environment: conference report (pdf: 807kb)

Online Essays

Pavilions of splendour assessments of the Senedd and the National Waterfront Museum by Matthew Griffiths and Paul Vanner (About Wales summer 2006) pdf: 347kb view

Work in progress Derek Jones visits Wrexham (About Wales summer 2006) pdf: 166kb view

COLWYN BAY Cotswold: essay on this important Arts and Crafts house and its Japanese Garden from the Colwyn Bay Civic Society read

Matthew Griffiths Where do we want to live? Sustainable design for living and working in Wales (review essay) (html)

Bill Davies Simplicity everywhere (html) Building in Wales should demonstrate respect for land and site; recent development has been weak because it ignores such factors

Matthew Griffiths Altered states: cultural policy and design in Wales and Scotland (html)

Siarlys Evans Druidical isolation: style and identity (html)

Paul Vanner Democratising design (html)

Siarlys Evans and Mike Flynn on the draft Design TAN from the National Assembly (html)

Matthew Griffiths Urban design and Welsh communities (Urban Design Alliance Conference paper, September 2002) (html)

Paul Vanner Urban design: myth or reality (html)

Matthew Griffiths First steps in urban design (html)

Review articles

Vernacular Gower read
Houses and History in the March of Wales, Radnorshire 1400-1800 read
Copperopolis read
Swansea — history you can see (Richard Porch) read
Hidden Histories: Lise Brekmoe reviews a lavish book celebrating one hundred years of the Royal Commission on Ancient Monuments link

Acrobat presentation

Planning and design presentation prepared for Newport Civic Society (November 2004) (pdf: 722kb)

Awards

Civic Trust Awards in Wales 2001 souvenir brochure of HSBC Civic Trust Awards ceremony (pdf: 498kb)

Welsh Civic Societies Local Design Awards 2004 (pdf: 314kb)

Online Exhibition

Robert Thomas, sculptor
The late Robert Thomas was an inventive and distinctively Welsh artist whose works enliven our public spaces (html)

Web design

Online guide to designing a society web site (pdf:212kb) A little elderly in terms of the programmes and coding methods discussed, but still valid in terms of its good advice on design and the preparation of images for the web.